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While other sites have chosen to limit artist’s control, Imagekind continues to keep control in its proper place…with the artist.

Giving control to the artist is just one of the reasons artists prefer buying and selling their artwork at Imagekind, over other art print sites. Some other reasons include:

• All artists (paid or not) can purchase their own work at base price.
• Our base prices are low.
• We give our artists control of how they price their artwork; we never determine the price for them.
• Artists keep their markup; we never profit from an artist’s markup.
• Our frame and giclee print quality is superior.

For the level of quality and choices Imagekind offers, our base prices are an excellent option for those looking to buy their own work. Whether you want to buy your art prints for an upcoming art show, have us drop ship your artwork to your customers or just want to own or give one of your works as a gift, Imagekind really is your best option.

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Have you ever seen an artist’s website that features a slide show movie of their work? They’re pretty simple to add and a great way to promote your artwork for sale.

There are a few different services out there but I think (at the moment) I prefer slideroll the most. It’s free, easy to use, simple and effective. Compared to some other slide show creators, there are no flashy branding that can distract the viewer from your work.

Plus, slideroll offers a sweet program that lets you easily create your slideshow into a video that you can add music to and put on YouTube. I’ll go over some of that later though.

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It’s really cool to see how artists are seizing opportunities to help promote their artwork for sale. Two of our Imagekind artists got some great press this last week in their local newspaper and I wanted to pass it on. In the article titled Connecting with Cameras, Notley Hawkins and Chris Wolters share some helpful tips on how to use Flickr to promote their art print sales on Imagekind.

How do you use Flickr to help promote your artwork?

Checkout the article below to read how some artists on Imagekind use Flickr to help promote their artwork. Not only are they seeing an increase in art print sales, but they also share some helpful tips and advice on how they get their work published and recognized. Imagekind’s strategic partnership with Flickr not only gives artists a great way to help promote their work, it’s really just as easy as a few simple clicks to get started.

Read the full article here.

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If you are a lover of Polaroid photos, then you have probably heard the sad, awful news: Polaroid has decided to discontinue the production of all its instant films to make room for new technologies. I am an artist of many mediums, and one of my favorites is Polaroid. Amateurs and professional photographers alike have embraced the instant gratification that a Polaroid gives us. Some well known artists who loved the medium include such names as Ansel Adams, Chuck Close, Walker Evans, Andy Warhol… the list goes on and on.

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“Squidoo is the world’s most popular site for building free, single pages about your passions.”

If you haven’t heard of Squidoo yet, listen up because it could help you increase your art print sales. One of the best ways to understand Squidoo is as DailyCandy advises: “Think Friendster meets Wikipedia.” It is essentially a network of pages (lenses, ala Squidoo) about specific topics that users who love those topics create.

So, how can using Squidoo help you sell? Well, what is it you’re passionate about? Several Imagekind artists have already tapped into this excellent resource. Check these out to get some ideas on how you can utilize Squidoo:

Edition Handruck (on Squdioo)
Andrew Gibson (on Squidoo)
Natasha Wescoat (on Squidoo)

If you have yet to create a lens about your artwork, I would encourage you to check it out and start one. If you have started one, I’d love to see it. Throw a link in the comment section and I’d be happy to take a look.

If you have any questions or further ideas on how to use Squidoo more effectively, share them.

Nate

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Image: DREAMING AGAIN by [ METROFADER ]
http://metrofader.imagekind.com

Emily, our print and color specialist here at Imagekind shares five tips to make sure your giclee prints produce perfectly. We are constantly hearing about how amazing our print quality is and it is in large part due to Emily, Will and our fantastic production team taking care of all the order details. They go through painstaking measures to make sure each print sent from Imagekind is top-notch, museum quality.

Continue reading to see a few of Emily’s favorite images at Imagekind and her top five tips to turn your originals into fine art giclees successfully.

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Does Brian Auer ever sleep? He seems to always have something new going on!

It is really amazing to see how some of our innovative member artists come up with new ways to show and sell their work. Brian Auer has collected seven fine art photographers to help contribute with his endeavor to increase the world’s collection of breathtaking photography. As Brian explains in the Fine Art Photo Blog Press Release,

…seven internationally acclaimed fine art photographers work together, publishing a work of fine art photography daily; every day another photographer, each photographer once per week. The works will be up for purchase in two variants…as high-quality but unsigned prints… [and] …as definitive and collectible signed prints.

Image: Colors of the Canyon by Brian Auer

You can also find it at the Fine Art Photo Blog

We at Imagekind are amazed at the level of quality and artistic ability each of these seven photographers exhibit and posses. Each of the artist has the choice where their print orders are fulfilled and we are thrilled and honored at many of the artist’s choice to select Imagekind for this function.

We are proud that our quality is superior enough for such amazing photographers to choose that their spectacular images be printed with us! It is truly amazing how artists are utilizing Imagekind’s print-on-demand service to build their own art businesses.

Take a look, www.fineartphotoblog.com.

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Take a minute to analyze the graph below, it might just help you in your endeavor to increase sales.

This information is pulled from a service offered by Google called Trends. Google Trends displays aggregated graphs of information mapping the amount of a specific word or terms searched using Google. Simply, it lets you see what people are searching for, and to what degree of interest searchers have in specific words or terms. What this provides practically is a way to help determine what is on the market’s mind.

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